[thelist] Logic help

[Erik Mattheis]

>I'm working in PHP...but that's kind of beside the point.
>
>I'm having a hard time coming up with the logic for determining whether
>a date is in winter or not.
>
>I at first thought it was as easy as making a timestamp out of winter's
>begin date, making a timestamp of winters end date and seeing if my time
>falls between the 2.
>
>That doesn't work because if it's february, winter began last year. If
>december, winter ends next year.

You have like 7 months to figure it out on your own, but I feel like
trying to help:

Use however you find out what the day of year is, as in 1-365 or
0-362, however PHP thinks about it ... here it is in my own super
secret scripting language:

winter_starts = DayOfYear(DateObject('december 21, 2034'))
spring_starts = DayOfYear(DateObject('april 21, 2034'))
today = DayOfYear(DateObject(whenIsNow())

if (winter_starts <= today < spring_starts) {
   // it's winter
}
else {
   // it's not winter
}

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